One of the best parts of any trip through Springfield MO is a stop Golden Korean Restaurant (map). Korean meals come with the traditional 5-6 small dishes that make the experience fun. The soft tofu soup (with a raw egg…
In America, there are no small eggs.
We do something illogical with in American culture regarding our language used to describe sizes. An Ivy League educated linguist I worked for in Taiwan used to ponder about this, and ask me, “Why, in America, don’t you have small…
Some truth about college
by Jorge Cham of PHDcomic.com click to see detail
Real graphic for comparison contrast
While we’re on the subject of sugar
From Laughing Squid
Spotting bias in texts (cherry picking part 2)
Sugar is good food (!?)The good folks at Boing Boing shared this after finding it at an individuals blog dedicated to vintage ads. See also: Fox News Advocates Shutting Down Libraries
Zen and the Art of Cherry Picking.
Road trip to dad’s to help out on the farm got me thinking about the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, and how picking cherries relates to teaching and learning writing. 1. The tendency for novice writers to “cherry pick” their…
What can you learn thru Read/Write web; what skills are needed (research notes)
Luckin et al. (2009) asks how the read/write web interacts with learning and what sort of skills support the kind of learning that happens in this environment, and notes that researchers (Buckingham, 2007; Green and Hannon, 2007; Jenkins, 2006) have…
Are students technology experts?
While there is no shortage of people with the view that today’s young are fish, and social media and technology are the water through which they swim, that isn’t the complete truth. Pew Reports note that young people are prolific…
Low tech solution: crowd sourced communication
Several groups of my comp 2 students chose campus communication as a key problem facing students. Last days to drop, deadlines for enrollment and other key dates pass and too many students remain oblivious. Email is an obvious solution –…